Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit How fantastic can you get? Even better than the Playstation Pocketstation, the Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit has taken the world by storm by being the best memory unit there is! The Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit is really great, dependable and acts as a miniature games machine! Run on watch batteries, you can fit two Visual Memory Units into one Dreamcast controller, and only using it o save your game on. During many games, ... ...minigames! Any games on the Dreamcast that support minigames can download them onto your Visual Memory Unit, and you can play them when travelling, as the Visual Memory Unit is so small. There are a variety of minigames available, some downloadable from the Internet. The one minigame that captivates me most is Pinta Quest, from Skies of Arcadia. With two Visual Memory Units, you can download Pinta Quest onto one, and play it while the battle scenes ...
IanJC 11.12.2001
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Dreamcast VMU Unit
Advantages: Good design, and great for playing games Disadvantages: None! (well battery life is shortish)
The Dreamcast VMU is one of the most innovative peripherals ever created for a games console, and I feel that Sega have designed more than a mere memory card here, and everyone will incorporate this idea in some way or other! The VMU stands for Visual Memory Unit, and is currently the only Official Sega product offering the save game facility, but it is also the best memory card available for your Dreamcast. It can save 200 blocks (1MB) worth of ... ...to the VMU via the Dreamcast Internet. There's Pac-Man, Tetris, Godzilla (very confusing as it is in Japanese), Various football games, Space Invaders, Etch-a-sketch, and all the mini games that are included with many Dreamcast games. There is the Chao adventure from Sonic adventure, a Sega GT racing and training mini game, some Soul Calibur games (online only - not from the game), some from Quake 3, and many more! The games aren't that complex, ...
D1A1UK 25.02.2001
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...complain about. Sega's Dreamcast uses a VMU, which starts for Visual Memory Unit, which allows you to cart the card around with you and play 'mini-games' on the card thanks to it's inbuilt battery, D-pad and buttons. Much like a Tamagotchi. But better, in that you can actually choose what minigames you want to play. Being only a recent DC-er, I only have ChuChu Rocket and Sonic Adventure. Of those, Sonic allows you to transfer the not-too-inspiring ... ...than Snake on a mobile is. And it lets you advance further in the game (well, sort of). So, the VMU allows you to store data on the card itself. Useful. And play minigames. Fun, but kinda pointless. And get the time. Also, if you want to delete something, you don't have to do any funny business involving resetting the console, fiddling about with memory card management software lah de dah, as you just go in to the 'File' option on the card and browse ...
bigbtommy 23.09.2001
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Advantages: It saves games Disadvantages: Don't expect a handheld games machine
...one since I've owned my Dreamcast and I've never replaced the batteries in it. They've run out so I can't use it as anything other than a memory card but that's what it was made for in the first place and it seems to be really good at it. I have yet to lose any data or have to format it so it seems perfectly adequate as a data storage medium.
You should have one of these if you have a Dreamcast, you really need it to save games otherwise you'll ... ...out on a lot of the extras. So if you have a Dreamcast then buy one and if you don't, don't. I wouldn't recommend buying a third party memory card, I have one and it just refuses to save my Sonic Adventure save games for any decent length of time. ...
Mortuus2k 21.11.2000
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Advantages: You can play small games with it while you are out and about. Disadvantages: The VMU's battery life isn't very long.
The Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit Unit is the best thing ever made for a games console. I bought the Dreamcast VMU and Dreamcast the day they came out and it was the best 320 quid i ever spent. i bought the VMU for 20 pound and i was gutted when i got it stolen with my dreamcast from my house.
The VMU's little screen can be used to play games that are downloadable from the internet. It might not be top quality graphics but the games are easy to play ... ...delete data without turning your Dreamcast on, so you are saving money on your elecricity. When you are playing it for ages you eyes do ache a bit but as always you just have to get used to it and then you will be ok.
You can even put a little mobile-phone like logo on them, but you have to delete all the data on your VMU so you should do it before you start to use it. It also contains a clock that you can change yourself but to make it easier you ...
kebabkiller 23.04.2001
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Advantages: Stuff Hapening On The Memory Card Disadvantages: Battery Life Is Short Out Of The Pad
...hold up to 1mb of dreamcast save files and games (for the VMU), this is 200 blocks of storage.
The VMU can slot into any dreamcast pad and can slot in nicely into the gun and looks like a hi-tech gunclip.
The VMU doesn't have much battery life out of the pad, but you can still buy batteries for it now from some websites for about £5.
The VMU is quite pricey at £20 so i only suggest you get one for each pad and buy a large unnoficial Memory Card ...
The_a_team 04.04.2004
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Advantages: You can play the game on the road. Disadvantages: The Battery will run out after a few hours.
The Vmu is marvelous. >It allows you to save from your games.
>It allows you to save small games so you can play them on your travels.
>It allows you to check the time.
>It allows you to even see what you have saved on its little screen.
BUT what it does not tell you is that if you play A small game for about 7 hours. The battery runs out. Now don't get me wrong, I know that batteries do not last for ever. But please 7 hours, it sounds a lot ... ...can still run the vmu from your control pad. As long as the computer is on, the VMU will light up and give you alsorts of pictures. This piece of technology is a big feature of Saga and I advise you to get one. Just don't play games on it when your not on the dreamcast. On the Hattonus scale I think this cool little gismo should receive 6/10 due to the battery problem. ...
hattonus 19.08.2001
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Advantages: Different idea! Disadvantages: Err... Can I come back to that one?
The consoles great, this VMU is great, what more can I say? I have put a Chao onto my VMU using the Sonic Adventure game (not SA 2) so I can use it like a tamagotchi. I don't have to feed it or clean up it's 'whoopsies', but I have to help it in battles and tell it which way to go when it reaches the end of a certain sections (example: if you get to the end of the beach, maybe you could go to the cliff next) and help it up when it falls down, etc. ... ...some games you buy come with mini-games. So far I have only found Chao Adventure with Sonic Adventure and Snake with TrickStyle. Would definately recommend, because it saves games, you can play games, tell the time and date, and trade and delete game data (requires 2xCR2032 batteries).
CHEAT: On the time screen, hold down the left arrow and press A. You can then change the display picture. ...
chrishill84 13.08.2004
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Advantages: You can play games on it! Disadvantages: There are none
The DreamCast VMU well pretty amazing I would say...What more can you access from a memory card! Not only is a memory card but you can send saved data to other little vmu memory cards and play games on them its amazing! Nothing like any other memory card you can get games like chao adventure etc. on it its in black and white but still really cool it explains how to get games on it on the Sonic Adventure insturction booklet if your interested in getting ... ...where you look after your chao battle your friend who have the same chao adventure game play games with your chao and more! All on a little virtual memory unit (VMU). Oh yes I almost for got to mention you can save your game data on it as well because of course its a memory card you may mistake it for a gameboy though as it has similar controls to a gameboy! ...
mdelovett 03.09.2005
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Advantages: Portable mini games to help you with your main game Disadvantages: None
...on Power Stone 2. Because Dreamcast has an online function it means that you can download games like Pacman onto them and then take them away and play them, the possibilities are endless. The VMUs also act as screens whilst the game is on so they are cool to look at when something is loading or sometimes they give you hints etc. The VMU also is a very good memory card and has stored 20 game's data on one card. I cannot think of one flaw with them, ...
crimsonnight.com 31.05.2005
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